TTC Check In!

ball.and.chain · September 2013

Monday again...this is the weekly check in for those who are trying to conceive (TTC) or in the planning process.

How are things going this week? I believe @KH826 is having her egg retrieval tomorrow (wheeeee!)...any other major developments out there?

QOTW: Do you remember your dreams? Any recurring or interesting dreams/themes you'd like to share with us?

ball.and.chain · September 2013

I got my period on Friday (yay!) so it's now CD4, I'm back on estrogen, and I have a lining check scheduled for the 18th. If all goes well, I'll start my Lupron soon after that, and have my FET at the end of October.

QOTW: I don't often remember them, but I had this weird dream last night that I was at this combination of college fair + job fair + craft fair; my ex-girlfriend was there, my wife was there, and my RE was a chaperone??? So that's why dreams are on my mind.

StacyLH24 · September 2013

I'm currently on CD 5. Had my blood test on Wednesday and the nurse informed me twice that it was "definitely negative". Just one, " sorry, but it was negative" would have been fine. Next Monday I will go back up for a CD 12 u/s to see how many follicles this time, etc.

QOTW- Lately I have not been remembering most of my dreams. Though last night was an exception. I have to meet a few coworkers at our hospital this morning, which was the subject of my dream. I dreamt that I was late, which meant that no one brought the cake that I am supposed to pick up before I head over. In my dream, I missed the entire morning and when I apologized my one coworker was still very upset.

KH826 · September 2013

Tomorrow is in fact my egg retrieval!

Trigger shot was last night at 10pm, and the retrieval is tomorrow morning at 10am. The shot was scarier than other injections up until now, b/c it is a much bigger needle and was an IM injection (had to go into the muscle). BUT, much to my surprise, it really wasn't bad. I went back into my RE's office again this AM for more blood work. I will get a call this afternoon. Then tomorrow is the big day. HAHA. Or big day part 1. I guess the really big day is transfer. Looks like transfer will be Sunday 9/15, if all goes according to plan.

That's all I've got at the moment... I suppose that is enough! Thanks for all of you that put up with my constant updating on the other thread after my monitoring appointments. And thanks for all the encouragement. I am a bit nervous about tomorrow, but I am also looking forward to it, b/c I am feeling mighty gross at this point and can't wait to get these darn eggs out of me!

QOTW: I go through phases where I won't remember any dreams at all for a long time, and then I will go through a phase where I have lots of dreams that I remember bits and pieces of. I seem to have more dreams (if that's what you can call them) when I am in that semi-awake state right before I wake up. They feel less like dreams and more like my mind making up stories...because I feel like I am partially awake... that probably does not make any sense! Anyway, I haven't had a good dream that I remembered in a while, so maybe I am due for one soon!

Pinkspark · September 2013

Hello! I finally had a chance to post on time for once! I am currently 5dpiui and trying not to let my first TWW drive me crazy!

QOTW- I generally have wacky dreams that are very hard to make sense of and then I usually forget them pretty fast. I should start a dream journal, maybe I'd be able to remember them better!

Amber&Reva · September 2013

I get the results of all my blood work and other fertility work up on Wednesday, then assuming my phone app is correct should start my period on Thursday which is also when we would be paying for our first IUI. So if that time frame is correct I may be getting my first IUI in about 15 days. Crazy!!! Kinda scary, I mean me and R are both 29, my mom had three kids by the time she was my age and I can't help but still feel so young.

QOTW- I don't remember any of my dreams right now. I can say that I used to never dream, but since starting to take pre-natal vitamins I have such vivid dreams. Is this common? Or am I just assuming that is the connection and it isn't

wishiwaspreggo · September 2013

I am still waiting for AF, who should have arrived on Friday or Saturday last week. I had my brown spotting starting on Wednesday. Convinced myself that AF was here. AF never came and the brown continued. Then convinced myself that I was pregnant. Then took an HPT this morning and got a BFN, and now convinced I'm NOT pregnant. The rollercoaster of "excited" to "disappointed" is causing me heavy emotional drain. I called for a blood test this morning. Doc is out of the office and won't get back to me until tomorrow. So it looks like I have another day of tempering my obsession ahead of me. Who knows, maybe I'll get cramps and start to bleed bright red and then I'll know it's over. *grumpy*

Anyway, about dreams... my dreams are crazy because they feel SO real. If something terrible happens in my dreams I will worry some part of it was true. Like once my mom died in my dream and I called her right when I woke up - she was fine, but she was dealing with a spell of depression. I have intuition that verges on paranormal... I know when my friends are pregnant before they tell me, and I can generally predict their gender if I'm close enough to that person. I get "bad feelings" and then I'll discover I was right to stay home (i.e. a car crash on the interstate I would've taken etc). That's why I'm so upset - I had "good feelings" about this IUI and while my intuition isn't always spot on, usually I'm right or at least close.

Anyway... funny dream that (thank God) didn't result in reality): I dreamed I was naked and spooning with my gay husband (I call him that because he's really paternalistic towards DP and I and fixes things around our house, admonishes us when we are being irrational, and generally thinks he's "the man" in our friendship). He was kissing my neck and stroking my tummy. I woke up freaking out because EWWWW he's like my brother!!!! Later that day DP had to work and he called me and said "Hey, my boyfriend's busy tonight too! Let's go on a date and pretend we're straight!" I reluctantly agreed and true to his word he treated me like his girlfriend and I think he even brought me flowers. Needless to say I was super uncomfortable after my dream the night before... Ugh, still gives me the shivers thinking about it!!! LOL

healz413 · September 2013

We are 12dpiui today. We did a home pregnancy test yesterday and it was negative (not surprising). We didn't test this morning. Tomorrow is supposed to be blood test day, but Manada has a day-long work retreat and doesn't want to have to deal with a negative blood test call in the middle of it, so I think we will do the blood test Weds morning. Not sure if we will HPT tomorrow. We will probably HPT before the blood test Weds so we can get the likely news at home together.

As you know, we are not expecting this IUI to work, even though, obviously, we would love for it to. We have taken a very different approach to the 2WW than the last 4 times--much more low key, not talking a lot of about it, not signing to the egg and sperm or embryo. I don't know whether or not this different approach will make a BFN any easier. But it has made the 2WW a bit easier.

Meanwhile I'm a week into being back on my birth control pills. RE wants be on BC for at least 6-8 weeks before an IVF cycle to suppress my endo. We are still hoping to start the IVF process on Nov. 20 or 21.

We will do at least one more IUI with M before then, but we're not sure what the plan will be (natural, clomid, injectables).

QOTW- For the last while (year and a half?) I have a recurring dream theme which is that I need to call 911, but something goes wrong. It is a bit different each time. Sometimes I'm on a cell phone and keep accidentally hitting the wrong keys, sometimes I'm on a payphone, sometimes I get the keys right but other things go wrong. A while ago my dream self thought it had come up with a way to avoid the problem and asked someone else to call 911 for me. But that didn't work either. Last night I actually had a dream where I needed to call 911 but thought it would be a problem so tried instead to find a police officer on the street but couldn't.
The funny thing is that in real life when I needed to call 911 about a year ago because I accidentally put my hand through a window, the line was busy. This was after several months of having these reoccurring dreams. 911 called me back, though, in the real life situation.

wishiwaspreggo · September 2013

@healz413 I'm with ya, buddy. This 2WW thing is a real mind effer for me. I'm hoping our next cycle DP and I will take a more reasonable and less obsessive approach. The second week was the worst, though. And I'm still freaking waiting on AF. The only thing that's giving me hope is that when I do POAS my urine is very light so I'm wondering if I'm even getting enough HCG out to test positive. I mean, it just seems really weird to start spotting brown 2 days before my period was due and then to carry on with the spotting 5 days later with no other AF symptoms in sight (aside from the aching breasts but that's normal enough for me, I suppose).

Anyway... anxiously awaiting a blood test so I can figure this out.

trisholio · September 2013

Hello ladies. I am on CD9 and on Clomid for month #2. I have my u/s and trigger appointment on Friday the 13th. This could be bad luck for some people but my DW's favorite and lucky number is 13, so we are hoping this is a good thing. We will be doing our insemination on Saturday and Sunday. We are super excited, but also trying not to obsess about it too much.

QOTD: I have crazy dreams! I usually remember them right when I wake up, but not long after that. I keep saying I need to keep a dream journal, because some of them are really out there!

Manada · September 2013

I am a bit of a mess today. PMS is kicking my butt and I am stuck in a series if all day strategic planning meetings today and tomorrow and I am having a rough time. This morning's session was all about cultural competence (a subject which pushes a lot of buttons for me in my advocacy work) and this afternoon is made up of sessions from marketing and finance departments that really aren't applicable to my work. I am so busy at work that it is annoying to me to be spending my time sitting in here. There are 4-5 of us who are program coordinators here who are twiddling our thumbs through these sessions. This is becoming a bit of a Vent....

I am supposed to do an evening event tonight and I am already considering going home sick. The pms nausea, headache and general gloominess is driving me nuts... As H mentioned, we are 12dpiui - and got a BFN the other day via a test. The beta is Wed morning probably, and I have no idea what the plan is for my next cycle. I am a bit torn between the super invasive injects cycle or just going natural. Last shot at it.... Because its my last iui I am also starting to grieve the end of this journey again as well....

QOTD: I have been having crazy dreams this week. Not repeating ones but stress is aparent in them - losts of themes of being lost, having babies featuring in them, and sometimes having lots of rescuing to do in them... Brutal.

GoaliesWife123 · September 2013

trisholio said:

Hello ladies. I am on CD9 and on Clomid for month #2. I have my u/s and trigger appointment on Friday the 13th. This could be bad luck for some people but my DW's favorite and lucky number is 13, so we are hoping this is a good thing. We will be doing our insemination on Saturday and Sunday. We are super excited, but also trying not to obsess about it too much.

QOTD: I have crazy dreams! I usually remember them right when I wake up, but not long after that. I keep saying I need to keep a dream journal, because some of them are really out there!

We'll be doing an insemination on Wed and Friday (as long as the opk's get darker), so we'll be *sort of* 2ww buddies

GoaliesWife123 · September 2013

Well, today is CD 15 and the OPKS are starting to get a little darker as the days go by. I am very well hydrated, so I'm not sure that my urine is concentrated enough lately. We'll be *hopefully* doing an insemination on Wednesday and Friday. If I still get positives, we'll do one more insemination after that. That's all we can afford!

I went to the acupuncturist today who was very happy to know that I haven't ovulated yet. We missed our session last week because we were on the trail, so we thought I was going to miss my mid-cycle appointment. Thankfully we did not and I had a wonderful session today. She gave me more herbs to drink that are specifically for ovulation.

We're hoping that getting more than one insemination will help with this cycle. For now, it's just a waiting game...

ball.and.chain · September 2013

KH826 said:

I am a bit nervous about tomorrow, but I am also looking forward to it, b/c I am feeling mighty gross at this point and can't wait to get these darn eggs out of me!

I was SUPER nervous before ER. I had never had surgery or been under IV sedation before. But everything went smoothly and I felt fine when I woke up and was excited to hear how many eggs were retrieved! If you trust your clinic, you can go off to dreamland knowing you will be well taken care of. And based on your follies I think it's pretty likely you'll wake up to a good number. We'll be thinking of you here and waiting to hear the results.

KH826 · September 2013

Thanks so much ball.and.chain! I think I down played my anxiety about tomorrow a bit - I am pretty nervous, but I am hopeful tomorrow will be a good day! I am looking forward to posting my post-retrieval TTT tomorrow

2MamazInSeattle · September 2013

I'm late! Traveled for work today... My blood work this morning was a thumbs up! I now start increasing my patches to build the lining. My next appt. is blood draw and lining check on 9/18, and FET is still set for 9/23!

QOTW: I go in phases, but I had a dream my boss gave me my (favorable) annual review and then told me he traded me to another team!! I woke up with a gasp like it was a nightmare!! Phew. When I was pregnant I had lots of baby and birthing dreams.

2NewMoms · September 2013

CD11 here! Hoping to see that Smiley tonight or tomorrow morning so we can go in for our IUI on Saturday (Sunday the latest)...but we'll see. Then it's off to the TWW for the 3rd time. Those two weeks are SO hard...

GoaliesWife123 · September 2013

Update for me: Been getting progressively darker opks all week and today had EWCM. I had a feeling I would get a positive today and I did. Three of them.

We are doing another insemination tomorrow and hopefully Sunday, too. Here's hoping for a temp rise to confirm ovulation...

2NewMoms · September 2013

Got my smiley today!!! IUI Scheduled for tomorrow morning at the RE

kristi&p · September 2013

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We found out about our chemical pregnancy this week, and things finally came to an end yesterday no more waiting to see when I was going to start the actual process of getting rid of the pregnancy. Now we are just waiting I will be going for HSG on Monday the 23rd. I am very nervous about this I am afraid of the actual procedure and just hoping to get good news.

We have decided on a new donor, after 5 times with the other we felt it was time for a change.

My SO and I have talked that if the next couple of times don’t work or if the HSG doesn’t come back good we would look in to her getting pregnant. I with my whole heart want to carry but at this point if it isn’t meant to be than we can always change our plan. I would love to move on to IVF if the doctor thinks it would be a good path but my insurance wants 12 IUI before I can get the health benefits to open. My RE office also has a program that we can enroll in with one cycle of IUI if no success you get 75% of the cost back. But I guess all of this is to be determined.

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